The action of this novel anti-utopia takes place in a fictional World State. There is a 632-year stability era, the Era Ford. Ford, who created the world’s largest automobile company in the early twentieth century, is revered in the World State for God. It is called “Our Lord Ford”. In the state this is ruled … Read more
On the birthday of merchant Sun Zhong, only two of his soul mates are to come, two scoundrels – Liu Longqing and Hu Jijun. The wife, who has covered the festive table, reproaches her husband with bitterness that the younger brother, Sun Chuner, is not invited. He was excommunicated from the house by the slander … Read more
The fox at the wolf was in the service, and that the wolf forced her, and the fox had to do it, because she was weaker than him; and the fox wanted to get rid of the owner of such a thing. It happened once they went together in the forest, and the wolf said: … Read more
Pelageya, beautiful maid Alekhina, in love with cook Nikanor, a drunkard and a bully, but, nevertheless, so pious person that he does not agree to live with Pelagia, without concluding a legal marriage. The maid herself does not want to marry Nikanor, he is angry with her and even beats. Alyokhin argues that everything is … Read more
Vesljenov Josap Platonovich, in past years convicted of political actions, returns to the provincial town, where he is met by his sister Larissa and ex-wife, who unexpectedly married General Sintyanin, who has a bad reputation in society. Also to meet Iosaph came Major Forov, who stated that he would never marry a man, but would … Read more
At one of the exhibitions in a secular conversation, a chance to speak about a new, recently published novel. At first no one or almost no one knows about it, but suddenly interest awakens to him. Critics consider it their duty to admire the “Golden Fruits” as the purest example of high art – a … Read more
Victor Pronyakin stood over a giant oval pit of the quarry. Shadows of clouds walked along the ground in a jamb, but not one could cover the entire quarry, the entire motley, moving crowd of cars and people below. “It can not be that I’m not caught here,” thought Pronyakin. But it was necessary. It’s … Read more
VM Garshin Signal Semyon Ivanov serves as a watchman on the railway. He is a seasoned man, but not too lucky. Nine years ago, in 1878, visited the war, fought with the Turks. He was not wounded, but he lost his health. He returned to his native village – the farm did not ask, the … Read more
Bend Sinister – a term of heraldry, denoting the strip to the left of the coat of arms. The title of the novel is connected with the attitude of V. Nabokov to the “ominously leftward world,” that is, the spread of communist and socialist ideas. The events of the novel take place in a conditional … Read more
The calm current of the working morning in laboratory No. 2 was violated by the sudden arrival of the chef of Corresponding Member AN Golitsyn. He made the dispatch to the employees, and then in a grumbling voice ordered that Sergei Krylov apply for the post of nachalab. There was silence. It was believed that … Read more